Le 15 août 2013 12:57, "Vincent Bernat" <ber...@debian.org> a écrit :
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> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.15
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
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> Dear Maintainer,
Bonjour Vincent,
> In bug #708551, a warning was introduced for PEAR packages not using
> ${phppear:description} and ${phppear:summary}. On some PEAR packages,
> the provided description are poor (starting with the package name for
> example). Therefore, the use of those macros should not be done blindly.
Unfortunately, there are no guidelines for Pear summary and description as
in Debian.
> I propose this patch to
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> 1. downgrade to wishlist the warning
I agree. But only for summary and description (keeping high severity for
deps substvars).
> 2. explain to not blindly rely on PEAR package descriptions
Yes. And propose to send better description upstream. There is no reason
to keep the improvement in Debian only.
I will rework a bit the patch.
Regards
Mathieu
